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An exploration of the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the `long eighteenth century.

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Provides a key to Egypt in all its layers - ancient and modern, Greek and Roman, and Christian and Islamic. This title gives an account of history that followed - from Greek and Roman conquests, the rise of Christianity, Arab-Muslim triumph, and Egypt's incorporation into powerful Islamic empires to Napoleon's 1798 invasion.

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Budge, a prestigious Egyptologist, includes a translation of secret religious papyri, a history of Egyptian religion, and a helpful English translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This is a reprint of the classic work first published in 1906.

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Englishwoman Eilean Giblin arrived in Australia in 1919 with a shipload of war brides. An unconventional feminist, she arrived with a commitment to women's rights and social justice developed through the suffrage movement and the intellectual appeal of left-wing social and political ideas.Patricia Clarke is an Australian author.

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An illustrated history of the Zapatistas based on interviews with the movement's original organizers.

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A journalist's eyewitness account of the explosive 1849 California gold rush and his travels through Mexico. In 1849, a young, wide-eyed reporter from New York ventured West not to seek riches, but to report on the madness and exuberance of the California gold rush.

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Hull House Songs, newly republished with a critical commentary, recovers the hidden emancipatory possibilities of the Hull-House women's legacy.

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Elusive Jannah is a remarkable portrait of the very different experiences of Somali migrants in the UAE, South Africa, and the United States. Cawo M. Abdi clearly reveals the importance of immigration policies in the migrant experience.

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This books offers both a narrative and an analysis of the influence of British imperial involvements on history writing since 1750. -- .

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This book examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service1854-1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. Looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and how these factors were influenced by the changing political context. -- .

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How could the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, have produced Abu Ghraib, torture memos, Plamegate, and warrantless wiretaps Did America set out to become an empire And if so, how has it reconciled its imperialism--and in some cases, its crimes--with the idea of liberty so forcefully expressed in the Decla

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Usually viewed as a symbol of imperial might, Chaichian argues that Walls better fit as signs of an empire's decline.

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Features over 400 assassinations, attempts, and plots against political figures. This title contains narrative entries that detail history's turbulent moments, including the date, location, and description of each incident, as well as biographical information about the victim and assassin and the circumstances surrounding each historical event.

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On the eve of World War II, a small group of Africans and West Indians in London dared to imagine the unimaginable: the end of British rule in Africa. In books, pamphlets, and periodicals, they launched an anti-colonial campaign that used publishing as a pathway to liberation. This book traces the development of this publishing community.

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Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation.